Bonanza
"America's Favorite TV Western"
The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.
Season 9 Episodes
E1
Renegade Indians have been on the rampage attacking settlers and raising havoc in the West. Joe and Hoss have gone to w…
E2
Ben, Hoss and Little Joe help the Virginia City militia escort a renegade Indian, who believes he is the Almighty, throu…
E3
A band of Mexican kidnaps Little Joe for a $25,000 ransom. A group of cowboys plan to rescue Joe, kill him and claim the…
E4
Candy is arrested for committing murder in the town of Olympus. He is accused of killing Jed Wheelock, the son of wealt…
E5
A sadistic outlaw named Dibbs along with his gang, take siege of the Ponderosa, holding Joe, Hoss, and Candy prisoners. …
E6
While at the bank in Sandust, Little Joe and the bank's secretary witness an armed robbery. During a subsequent gunfight…
E7
Most people consider Mark Cole a coward, but he does not hesitate to step forward when his brother attempts to break a h…
E8
Driving horses to Utah, the Cartwrights and Candy discover only two people left in a town wiped out by rampaging Paiute …
E9
A young girl's ownership of a beloved stallion is jeopardized by the "big plans" of her scheming father.
E10
A career robber who claims to be a lumber man, and his gang plan to use Ben's new freight paddleboat to haul a $1 millio…
E11
Ben's old friend has stolen money from corrupt politicians in New York and plans to invest in Nevada.
E12
An injured rancher, who has enlisted the aid of the Cartwrights to buy back one of his horses after his farm is foreclos…
E13
An anguished Hoss discovers that his testimony helped hang an innocent man accused of murder. As he struggles to bring t…
E14
Hoss wants to buy a mine thought to be worthless and orders a fancy invention to prove it isn't and becomes the local la…
E15
A man, recently released from prison for bank robbery, is accused of robbing the same Virginia City bank and gunning dow…
E16
Trick photography is employed to help a killer beat a murder rap, to prove he was not there at the time of the murder he…
E17
The ranchers are once again losing stock to rustlers and not everyone agrees with range detective Marcus Alley's prevent…
E18
A cruel, sadistic, alcoholic and racist rancher named Aaron Gore stalks the wife of Ben's friend, whom he has hired as a…
E19
When a young woman inherits her late father's salt mine, a greedy rancher wants to buy all the salt for himself. Ben, st…
E20
A band of outlaws enact a scheme to rob the Ponderosa, by tricking Hoss and Little Joe away from the ranch and leaving a…
E21
Hoss stands alone in refusing to convict Johnny Mule, a ""slow"" ranch hand who is accused of robbing and murdering his …
E22
In order to ruin the plans of a corrupt politician, Ben allows everyone to think that an attempt on his life was success…
E23
Candy falls in love with a beautiful young woman, unaware that the man claiming to be her cousin is a bounty hunter who …
E24
The Ponderosa ranch hands are at Riverbend during a cattle drive. While there, Candy meets an old friend, Lilah Holden,…
E25
When a horse steps on Candy's hand out on the trail, he and Joe go to Angelus to find a doctor. When they arrive, Joe s…
E26
An alcoholic rancher, drinking away his bitterness, makes live unbearable for his wife and children. Hoss helps reform h…
E27
Davey - a orphaned Yute that Ben helped raise and has worked as a ranch hand on the Ponderosa - falls in love with one o…
E28
While the others are away, Ben and Candy are lured by an old friend of Ben's to go somewhere. The ""friend"" traps them…
E29
Hoss is accused of stabbing a man to death, and his only hope of acquittal is a once great trial lawyer who is now a hop…
E30
Eddie McKay, the son of a robber and murderer who Hoss killed several years ago in a shootout, returns to Virginia City …
E31
Joe and Candy sell a herd to the Farrell Brothers in Arizona, but are paid a worthless bank draft. The widow of the man…
E32
Joe reluctantly takes a job as a substitute teacher and must contend with two older students who have no use for an educ…
E33
An untalented gypsy girl tries to get the Cartwrights to finance her career as an opera singer.
E34
Hoss and Joe rival for the affections of visiting entertainer Mademoiselle Denise, though she is more concerned for her …
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